Bribed

Examples

• My dear Miss Summerson, he returned with a candid hilarity that was all his own, I can't be bribed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I bribed you! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I can say of you what will make it stupidity to suppose that you would be bribed to do a wickedness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Now I come to think of it, he looked inquiringly at us with his frankest smile as he made the discovery, Vholes bribed me, perhaps? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The king relied on his army, and this was usually a mercenary army of foreigners, speedily mutinous if there was no pay or plunder, and easily bribed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For if politics is merely a guerilla war between the bribed and the unbribed, then statecraft is not a human service but a moral testing ground. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• How can I be bribed? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If any man could be bribed to follow him slyly! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He was bribed by that scoundrel, Jingle, to put me on a wrong scent, by telling a cock-and-bull story of my sister and your friend Tupman! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Fanny, Fanny, I see you smile and look cunning, but, upon my honour, I never bribed a physician in my life. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

Typist: Steven